Is This Really Necessary? Vogue April 2012

Vogue April 2012 by Mert and Marcus

The other morning on my way to work I googled Vogue April 2012, like I usually do monthly when I suspect a new issue is coming out. Needless to say when I discovered that Jennifer Lopez was gracing the April shape issue my stomach flipped and I became so upset. So upset that I called my fiance to rant (I got a lot of really's and wow's). In my opinion, Jennifer Lopez has no place being on the cover of Vogue. She is talentless and outdated (did you see her awful look at the Oscars this year?) and her only claim to fame now is whoring herself out for any project and product that will shell out a paycheck. Anna Wintour already tortured us in 2005 with J.Lo (I mean the woman goes by a juvenile and completely laughable nickname):

Vogue January 2005 by Mario Testino

If you take notice both covers tackle her tumultuous private life. Yup. Not a new movie or incredible project. Just the fact that she is a boy crazy tart who hasn't had a number one box office hit since 2002. Let us not forget that she had a starring role in one of the worst movies of all time: Gigli. Oh and how could any of us or Ms. Wintour forget the fateful night of December 27th, 1999:

Yes, the ever classy J.Lo was arrested and has a mugshot where she looks so incredibly high she is practically touching God's toes. (Remember when Anna wouldn't let Rihanna get a cover because of leaked nudes?) Contradictory much?

Now I would like to jump to the point of her being on the SHAPE issue:

                                                                          Disclaimer: This is a jab at Anna Wintour
While virtually every woman has, had or will have cellulite at some point in her life, not every woman gets the opportunity to be photoshopped and have her flaws erased for the whole world to see. As much as I don't think Jennifer is a worthy cover girl, I do think that she looks excellent for a woman who has two small children and is approaching middle age. I am pretty sure Anna and her cronies would never let the real and untouched body of Jennifer Lopez grace their pages. Why? because Vogue is out to promote unhealthy and unrealistic standards of what a woman should look like and that my friends is disgusting. Jennifer should be proud of her body and her imperfections and for a woman that sings a song called "I'm Real" she should have taken a stance and said no to over retouching and showed that we can still be beautiful flaws and all. Clearly that isn't the case on either side. I though Vogue was changing for the better this year with the incredible Meryl Streep and Adele as cover girls. I thought the dynamic of beauty was becoming broader but yeah guess not.

Now my issue with the cover is that Jennifer looks mean, manly, typical and her hair looks like it could use a good scrub a dub dub. And the ocean backdrop...Again? Ooh J.Lo is Latina so we obviously have to put her in red because that's MUY CALIENTE! (say this whole line in a WASPY, Vogue voice for the full experience) The Bottega Veneta Spring 2012 gown is gorgeous but typical and they could have gone a whole different way with this cover. Plus, it's so 90's looking. I guess Anna Wintour is holding on to the days where she was actually relevant and innovative.

There are so many worthy, beautiful and real women that have yet to be on the cover of Vogue and should be: Zooey Deschanel (pretty please?), Sofia Vergara, Katy Perry just to name a few and I think it's time for Anna to give up her hard-on for Victoria Beckham and give the successful designer a freakin' cover already!!

What do you guys think of the April 2012 cover? Who do you think is worthy of a coveted US Vogue cover?